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Scanamorphos: a map-making software for Herschel and similar scanning bolometer arrays
Scanamorphos is one of the public softwares available to post-process scan
observations performed with the Herschel photometer arrays. This
post-processing mainly consists in subtracting the total low-frequency noise
(both its thermal and non-thermal components), masking high-frequency artefacts
such as cosmic ray hits, and projecting the data onto a map. Although it was
developed for Herschel, it is also applicable with minimal adjustment to scan
observations made with some other imaging arrays subjected to low-frequency
noise, provided they entail sufficient redundancy; it was successfully applied
to P-Artemis, an instrument operating on the APEX telescope. Contrary to
matrix-inversion softwares and high-pass filters, Scanamorphos does not assume
any particular noise model, and does not apply any Fourier-space filtering to
the data, but is an empirical tool using purely the redundancy built in the
observations -- taking advantage of the fact that each portion of the sky is
sampled at multiple times by multiple bolometers. It is an interactive software
in the sense that the user is allowed to optionally visualize and control
results at each intermediate step, but the processing is fully automated. This
paper describes the principles and algorithm of Scanamorphos and presents
several examples of application.Comment: This is the final version as accepted by PASP (on July 27, 2013). A
copy with much better-quality figures is available on
http://www2.iap.fr/users/roussel/herschel
Scaling and singularity characteristics of solar wind and magnetospheric fluctuations
Preliminary results are presented which suggest that scaling and singularity
characteristics of solar wind and ground based magnetic fluctuations appear to
be a significant component in the solar wind - magnetosphere interaction
processes. Of key importance is the intermittence of the "magnetic turbulence"
as seen in ground based and solar wind magnetic data. The methods used in this
paper (estimation of flatness and multifractal spectra) are commonly used in
the studies of fluid or MHD turbulence. The results show that single
observatory characteristics of magnetic fluctuations are different from those
of the multi-observatory AE-index. In both data sets, however, the influence of
the solar wind fluctuations is recognizable. The correlation between the
scaling/singularity features of solar wind magnetic fluctuations and the
corresponding geomagnetic response is demonstrated in a number of cases. The
results are also discussed in terms of patchy reconnection processes in
magnetopause and forced or/and self-organized criticality (F/SOC) of internal
magnetosphere dynamics.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figure
Monte Carlo simulation of the electrical properties of electrolytes adsorbed in charged slit-systems
We study the adsorption of primitive model electrolytes into a layered slit
system using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. The slit system contains
a series of charged membranes. The ions are forbidden from the membranes, while
they are allowed to be adsorbed into the slits between the membranes. We focus
on the electrical properties of the slit system. We show concentration, charge,
electric field, and electrical potential profiles. We show that the potential
difference between the slit system and the bulk phase is mainly due to the
double layers formed at the boundaries of the slit system, but polarization of
external slits also contributes to the potential drop. We demonstrate that the
electrical work necessary to bring an ion into the slit system can be studied
only if we simulate the slit together with the bulk phases in one single
simulation cell.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Holomorphic one-forms on varieties of general type
It has been conjectured that varieties of general type do not admit nowhere
vanishing holomorphic one-forms. We confirm this conjecture for smooth minimal
varieties and for varieties whose Albanese variety is simple
Comment on "Finite Size Corrections to the Radiation Reaction Force in Classical Electrodynamics" [arXiv:1005.2617]
In [1, arXiv:1005.2617] effective field theory methods have been employed to
compute the equations of motion of a spherically symmetric charged shell of
radius R, taking into account the radiation reaction force exerted by the
shell's own electromagnetic field up to O(R^2). The authors of Ref. [1] have
stated that the known result for the self force of the shell as can be found
from Eq. (16.28) of the textbook of Jackson [2] (see also Chap. 4 in the review
of Pearle [3]) is incorrect, in that the term linear in R should be absent. We
claim that this conclusion of Ref. [1] is incorrect, and that the textbook
result, Eq. (1) does hold.Comment: 1 pag
Low-lying fermion modes of Nf=2 improved Wilson fermions
We present preliminary results for the topological charge and susceptibility
determined from the low-lying eigenmodes of the Wilson-Dirac operator. These
modes have been computed on dynamical configurations with Nf=2
non-perturbatively improved Wilson fermions. We compare our results with the
eigenmodes of fermions in the quenched approximation.Comment: Lattice2001(confinement), 3 pages, 5 Figure
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